Public health insurance is increasingly provided indirectly by private health insurers receiving government subsidies. Previous models find that these subsidies can cause insurers to distort benefits towards services that attract profitable individuals and conversely to provide less favorable...

The paper analyzes the activity of medical organizations in Russian health insurance system. A conception of “exit”, “voice” and “loyalty” by A. Hirschman is used to reveal the position of health care consumers . On the basis of researches that have been conducted in 2003, 2005 and...

Overdose deaths from prescription opioids are on the rise, and policymakers seek solutions to curb opioid misuse. Recent proposals call for price-based solutions, such as opioid taxes and removal of opioids from insurance formularies. However, there is limited evidence on how opioid consumption...

This chapter summarizes the many aspects of public policy for health care. I first consider government policy affecting individual behaviors. Government intervention to change individual actions such as smoking and drinking is frequently justified on externality grounds. External costs of...

We investigate the presence of moral hazard and advantageous or adverse selection in a market for supplementary health insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates of the health care utilization models indicate...

The Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) in Australia was designed to provide financial assistance to patients with high out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for medical treatment. The EMSN works on a calendar year basis. Once a patient incurs a specified amount of OOP costs, the EMSN provides additional...